Trailblazing South Korean boyband BTS have turned the primary group to have a foreign-language tune enter the US Billboard chart at primary, within the newest musical file to be re-written by the Ok-pop sensation.

“Life Goes On”, sung predominantly in Korean, topped the US Scorching 100 in its debut week, Billboard mentioned Monday, the primary foreign-language tune to take action within the chart’s 62-year historical past.

BTS — or Bangtan Sonyeondan, which interprets as Bulletproof Boy Scouts — have change into one of many largest acts on the planet since they launched seven years in the past, and made a billionaire of their managing company’s founder.

Their newest single can also be the primary mainly-Korean tune ever to high the chart. The band’s success marks the rising attraction of the South’s fashionable tradition within the US, after the subtitled Korean film “Parasite” gained 4 Oscar awards in February, together with Greatest Image.

BTS’ earlier observe “Dynamite” debuted atop the chart in September but it surely was sung totally in English, making it radio-friendly in Anglophone nations.

“Dynamite” continues to be within the chart at quantity three they usually have one other 5 tracks within the Prime 100.

“Life Goes On” is the band’s third primary in three months, after “Dynamite” and a BTS remix of “Savage Love” by Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo.

The band had achieved the feat “extra rapidly than any act since The Beatles”, Billboard mentioned, after “I Need to Maintain Your Hand”, “She Loves You” and “Cannot Purchase Me Love” all topped the chart in simply over two months in 1964.

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